TV Shows

Sex and the City inspired my wardrobe and influenced my choice of libation for much of my 20s and on into my 30s.  For two weeks after Six Feet Under and The Sopranos went off the air, I wore black and carried a hanky.  And true enough, it wasn’t Sunday…it was HBO.  All the while, Showtime is carrying on in the 300-channel-block of my DishNetwork, but other than a season of The LWord, and a few episodes of Weeds, nothing really maintained my interest like those HBO shows mentioned… until Nurse Jackie. 

Nurse Jackie is a 30-minute dark comedy set in an ER ensconced in the chaos of New York City.  Yeah yeah same show different city, right?  Wrong.  This isn’t a comedy spin-off of ER or House or Grey’s Anatomy or Scrubs or the countless other shows that fall under the hospital genre.  This one is different, as I’ll try to explain.

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